Greek Sculpture's Transition from Severe Style to Classical
448-432 B.C.) at the beginning of the style that would mark the mature period of Classical Greece. In this era, the artist seemed intent on balancing the realities of structure with the needs of ideal beauty. Phidias did this with his statues within the Parthenon. In southern Greece, Polyclitus produced the free-standing Doryphoros (c. 450-440 B.C.) in bronze. This scu
The fourth century B.C., the late Classical period, showed a humanizing trend in sculpture with the nudes of Praxiteles (such as his Aphrodite of Cyrene from C. 100 B.C.)and in works such as Woman's Head (c. 350 B.C.) by Scopas or the Apoxyomenos (c. 330 B.C.) by Lysippus (a work showing action in the third dimension not unlike that of the Doryphoros). Under Lysippus, many of the earlier trends of th
